Improvement in temporary binders



J. B. UNDERWOOD.

No.1 ame4.

TEMPORARY BINDER.

Patented Feb. 20,1877.

FEIERS. PHOTO-LTHOGRAPH WASHINGTON u C UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JOSEPH B. UNDERWOOD, OF FAYETTEVILLE, N. 0., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HISRIGHT TO WILLIAM A. WHITEHEAD, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN TEMPORARY BINDERS.

I Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 187,494, datedFebruary 20,1877; a plication filed February 5, 1877.

companying drawing.

'l'o all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrn B. UNDER- WOOD, of Fayetteville, in thecounty of Gumberland and State of North Carolina, have invented certainnew and useful Improvementsin Temporary Binders, which improvements arefully set forth in the following specification, reference being had tothe ac- This invention relates to that class of files that have clips orguards actuated by springs, and mounted oh card-boards, for the purposeof holding and binding letters, invoices,.bills, 8w.

The clip is constructed of wire, or any other suitable material, byforming loops K K in the same, as seen in the drawing, the wire thenbeing bent so as to form the front part of the guard having the loops ata convenient distance apart and at right angles, and pro jectin g backfrom the face of the same. The wire is then bent at suitable angles, andtel minates at the center, in the rearof the loops, in a roller, as seenat I. Near the ends of the wire it is bent to form cranks or eccentrics,

said guard being hinged with eyelets, as seen at E E, to the card-board,or, what is preferable, to a block, A, mounted on the card-board. Saidclip is further braced by a wire, as seen at F, the ends of which, afterbeing suitably coiled about the clip, terminate and fasten to it near EE, which serves the purpose of lifting the guard to and fro. The clip,being formed and hinged as above described, embodies within itself aspring for holding it either up or down, as may be desired. This isaccomplished by means of the roller I traversing the plane between thehinges E E as the clip is turned from front to rear, or vice versa, thearms H H being formed so as to produce the axes of the eccentricopposite to the face of the clip. By this device the clip fastening maybe inserted for fastening the papers when they are removed therefrom.

Other needles or clips may be used, such as McGills, if desired, in theconstruction of this file.

It is also provided with a guide, D, which serves to regulate thedistance from the edge of the papers to the point at which they arepierced.

In placing papers in the file the clip is raised until the loops K Kcome above the needles 0 G; the papers are then placed in, with the topedge resting against the guard D. The clip then being released, thespring forces it down, the loops K K holding the papers securely aroundthe needles 0 O in its downward movement; or, if preferred, the clip maybe thrownhack until it rests on the loop J, and the papers adjusted byhand, in which position the clip will be held by the action of thespring. as above described.

What I claim as my invention isl. A clip constructed of wire, and bentto form the loops K K, arms H H having cranks near theends, terminatingin and forming the axes of the roller I, eccentric to the hinges 2. Incombination with a hinged clip, actuated by a spring, and eccentric, tohold it either up or down, the loops K K and the needles 0 0, arrangedsubstantially as and for the purpose set forth.

J. B. UNDERWOOD. Witnesses:

U. GLovER, I). M. MCDONALD.

